Trait
Difficulty staying asleep
Clinical name: Maintenance insomnia
Individuals affected by abnormal difficulty in staying asleep tend to wake up at night and struggle to return to sleep. This condition typically involves spending more than 30 minutes awake during the night.
Summary
- Also called
- Waking up several times during the night, Insomnia middle, Middle insomnia
- Body system
- Abnormality of the nervous system
Reference genomeGRCh38hg38
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Changes in these genes cause rare conditions in which Difficulty staying asleep is seen. Most people with this trait have none of those conditions, and a gene on this list says nothing about anyone's own genome.
How often is among people with one of the gene's conditions, the most often across them, as the Human Phenotype Ontology records it. These pages describe traits and the research behind them; they are not a diagnosis, and a doctor or genetic counsellor is the person to ask about symptoms.
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Where this comes from
- The Human Phenotype Ontology, release 2026-09-01: the trait, its names, its definition and the genes linked to it. Find out more at hpo.jax.org.
- Data release 2026.10.16-c6eea6bf.
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